Ep36 Music Intervals (And Why Every Guitarist Needs to Know Them)
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this free guitar lesson, you are taught music intervals and why it's so important for guitarists to learn them.
Get to know interval shapes and interval names such as 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, and 7ths.
Follow the exercises to become more familiar with identifying intervals on the guitar fretboard and recognizing their sound by ear.
This lesson is suitable for guitarists from beginners to intermediate to advanced.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 36 of the guitar music theory podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I am your Well, greetings, guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | I am your host, Desi Cerna. |
| 0:27.1 | Today we're going to talk some music theory. |
| 0:29.0 | Specifically, we're going to talk about music intervals. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm going to explain what they are and how guitar |
| 0:34.8 | players use them to communicate with other musicians, to navigate the fretboard, |
| 0:39.7 | and just to understand music better. |
| 0:43.0 | And if this music theory information sounds like something you'd like to learn more about, |
| 0:47.0 | you can go to my website |
| 0:49.0 | guitar music theory.com and you can enroll in my free music theory course. It's kind of like a primer to the larger |
| 0:57.6 | fret theory video series that I sell. So it's a good opportunity for you to get introduced to some ideas |
| 1:05.1 | and get started on some things for free and if you like it and you would like to go |
| 1:11.5 | deeper into it than you could consider getting my larger |
| 1:17.0 | fretboard theory video course but definitely start with the free course just go to |
| 1:21.6 | guitar music theory |
| 1:22.6 | dot com |
| 1:23.6 | click on the option for the free music theory |
| 1:26.0 | course and you can get started today. All right in. So let's dive right in. And by the way, today I am playing through my Kemper profiling amplifier and the |
| 1:47.3 | guitar I'm using is a PRS SE mirror I think that's how it's pronounced M I R A. So I'm lucky enough that because of all of the content that I create, PRS will loan me some |
| 2:10.5 | guitars. |
| 2:11.5 | So I actually have this on loan. they offered to loan it to me and |
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